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Elephant Ambush posted:Thanks for this. My only problem with FF5PR and FF6PR has been screen tearing which is mildly annoying but I can live with. I hope this fixes it. If you have an Nvidia card you can force vsync using the Nvidia control panel. AMD might have a similar option, but I'm not familiar with their software.
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Halloween Jack posted:I really, really wish that Ultima IV would get a Dawn of Souls/Advance style remaster.
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was watching a buddy play through and they got destroyed by tunnel armor in the locke scenario. the tunnel armor was casting two spells per celes turn, so it was impossible to runic all of them. i told them to grind out three levels and try again, and that was enough, but wow i don't remember that being so difficult originally.
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Feb 24, 2022 18:31
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I always just ignore the chests my first time through the cave, because one of them turns into a lightning rod if you wait until the Locke scenario. Breaking that rod will one shot the tunnelarmor.
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Feb 24, 2022 18:35
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Feb 24, 2022 18:40
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Super No Vacancy posted:all the trash battles seem way easier and the bosses seem harder I can't prove that this is the case but if it is then it's the way it should be.
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Feb 24, 2022 18:41
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I don't think the Impresario had to worry about whether Celes sounded like a professional opera singer or not considering that your party members are the only people watching it. 
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Feb 24, 2022 18:44
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dolphinbomb posted:I always just ignore the chests my first time through the cave, because one of them turns into a lightning rod if you wait until the Locke scenario. Breaking that rod will one shot the tunnelarmor. yeah they were a first time player so i didn't want to nitpick their choices
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Twelve by Pies posted:I don't think the Impresario had to worry about whether Celes sounded like a professional opera singer or not considering that your party members are the only people watching it. There's a ton of people in seats behind the orchestra. Difficulty wise the game seems exactly the same. I was blitzing through it with minimal enemy encounters and wasn't having any more trouble than normal. Tunnel armor was always kind of hard if you fought it normally and didn't do any extra levelling so it's not surprising that it's still smashing people, especially first timers.
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Here's an interview with Uematsu about redoing the opera scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEmCUph3XNw main highlights that have been translated are that redoing it with vocals was his idea and Celes' voice actress in every language being an untrained singer was intentional
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Feb 24, 2022 19:15
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Coffee Jones posted:It could be that the same thing happened for FF6; a big coherent story bible was written but what makes into the game is another matter altogether,
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Feb 24, 2022 19:52
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Final Fantasy Tactics: Simplified Rules Edition https://twitter.com/vgcartography/status/1496919795849117707?s=20&t=za1iaF6b9a8ExpWtw5Kchg
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Blockhouse posted:Here's an interview with Uematsu about redoing the opera scene Wow I can't believe Uematsu is bad now. The George Lucas of video game music.
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Halloween Jack posted:I really, really wish that Ultima IV would get a Dawn of Souls/Advance style remaster. If they're going to do one, it'd be awesome to do the entire avatar trilogy, complete with serpent isles. Man I'd love to play those games, but it's just so hard to go back to them
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Frida Call Me posted:was watching a buddy play through and they got destroyed by tunnel armor in the locke scenario. the tunnel armor was casting two spells per celes turn, so it was impossible to runic all of them. i told them to grind out three levels and try again, and that was enough, but wow i don't remember that being so difficult originally. I didn’t have any weapons for Celes (I was sure I could find one on the way, but whoops) so I was largely having her heal each round while Locke knifed it down.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Wow I can't believe Uematsu is bad now. The George Lucas of video game music. I’m gonna kick ur fuckin butt
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Twelve by Pies posted:Wow I can't believe Uematsu is bad now. The George Lucas of video game music. He couldn't achieve his ideals with the technology available at the time.
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Elvis_Maximus posted:If they're going to do one, it'd be awesome to do the entire avatar trilogy, complete with serpent isles. Man I'd love to play those games, but it's just so hard to go back to them All of this, absolutely. I particularly can't get into the groove with 6 with the squashed field of view. 7 at least has Exult to help out a bit, but I'd love a remaster of those. (And get the people who did the Lazarus soundtrack to work on this, because their arrangements were *excellent * and I still listen to them today)
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I can't find an Oversoul on the Phantom Train for the life of me. 
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Vichan posted:I can't find an Oversoul on the Phantom Train for the life of me. You can only find them in the 6th car of the train, which unfortunately happens to be the one that you disconnect. So if you've already done that you've missed them for good.
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You can find in the interior cars with seats, not just the one car. I found it after disconnecting the previous cars.
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Fister Roboto posted:You can only find them in the 6th car of the train, which unfortunately happens to be the one that you disconnect. So if you've already done that you've missed them for good. I've been running around inside trying to get the encounter to spawn but no luck, I already reloaded because I figured it had to be that car... 
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Leal posted:He couldn't achieve his ideals with the technology available at the time. As an aside, this is actually why I've always felt 8 was one of his strongest works. 1-7 and 9, almost all the music feels like it was written with the intent of mimicking actual instruments, (and from 10 on we're at the point where synth instruments sound drat close to the real thing). With 8, a lot of the tracks have this really unique synthy sound that I never felt would really translate well into real instrumentation. This was actually reinforced by the Eden raids in 14. One example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqlRxsCBXyk Obviously you can hear that the instruments tend toward some synth organs and synth strings, with some electric guitar synths later on, but they're very clearly all synths. Compare that to the 14 version, which is orchestrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pd0ALPOhnQ It just doesn't work nearly as well, IMO. I can't prove it was intentional, but it really feels like 8 (and 10 also) were where Uematsu went "you know what? I'm going techno on this one instead of trying to mimic orchestration as usual" and as a result I think it really stands on its own among the FF soundtracks.
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Vichan posted:I've been running around inside trying to get the encounter to spawn but no luck, I already reloaded because I figured it had to be that car... I just got an Oversoul encounter in, like, the second random battle in the car with the save point after the disconnect event.
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50 Rage Trophy earned. Now I never have to interact with this dumb character's mechanic ever again.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Autobattle is absolutely not a guaranteed steal even with the thief bracer. I think the first merchant took 6 or 7 attempts to steal their stuff. I forgot to fight a Heavy Armor though so I couldn't learn it as a Rage on Gau but that doesn't matter because Gau still comes with Brawler (or whatever it's called now) as one of his starting Rages and that can still do 2000+ damage with Stone even on a level 10 Gau.
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Coffee Jones posted:still, it's nice not having the all the character sprites constrained to the same rectangle, like they have to make the old SNES get the most out of the 3MB of ROM they allotted it The rectangle thing is probably unrelated to ROM size, I haven't worked on the SNES specifically but most of these systems are setup to display tiles in sizes a multiple of 8 (8x8, 16x8, 8x16, 16x16, .etc). You can compress these pretty heavily on cart but uncompressed it eats more VRAM or you have to display extra sprites. Anyway, I was suprised to see that the actual underlying resolution of these games seems to be 180p, which is less than the SNES (256x224). I figured they would have gone higher.
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So I got to the Opera Scene (in English), my immediate thoughts: 1. Is the singer for Draco literally just the person from the Distant Worlds performances? 2. Uematsu's choice to have Celes be kind of an amateur tracks; in the immediately preceding scene, she's flustered to the point where she crashes into the dressing room door forgetting to open it, and is frantically practicing her singing; she knows she's not great but god drat is she trying to give it her all 3. The opera soundtrack being muffled when you leave the area is absolutely amazing 4. Ultros stop being so thirsty
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Harrow posted:If you want Celes to sound like she can actually sing for the opera scene, switch to Italian, I guess? can you switch language mid-game?
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Adeptus posted:If you have an Nvidia card you can force vsync using the Nvidia control panel. AMD might have a similar option, but I'm not familiar with their software. this is what I've had to do on my nvidias and it works well
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Super No Vacancy posted:all the trash battles seem way easier and the bosses seem harder Bosses don't seem any harder. I think when I killed Phantom Train Sabin/Cyan/Shadow were still level 10-11 and had low enough HP that the bombs could one-shot any of them with Blaze (and did so multiple times to Shadow  ). Even after beating up Kefka at Narshe I don't think anyone in my party has over 300hp without equipment but the fights arr still about the same as they were on the SNES version.
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Harrow posted:If you want Celes to sound like she can actually sing for the opera scene, switch to Italian, I guess? Blockhouse posted:Here's an interview with Uematsu about redoing the opera scene For reference with what Uematsu was going for for the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGl4FqUeFS0 Also game is good ya'll.
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Can you play this "two player" like how back in the day you could use another controller to let someone else input commands in battle?
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Frida Call Me posted:was watching a buddy play through and they got destroyed by tunnel armor in the locke scenario. the tunnel armor was casting two spells per celes turn, so it was impossible to runic all of them. i told them to grind out three levels and try again, and that was enough, but wow i don't remember that being so difficult originally. Runic eats every spell they throw at you until the next time Celes gets a turn, unless they changed it.
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Runic is active until it absorbs a spell or you input another action, at least in this version. I also got killed by the Tunnel Armor because it cast a spell before Celes got her turn, which was cool.
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Yeah Tunnel Armor kept getting off a poison right before Celes could re-up Runic for me. Thankfully I had the Ribbon on her so it wasn't too bad.
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Is there a way of playing the Dawn of Souls remakes of FF1 and 2 other than on the GBA/PSX?
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Calaveron posted:Is there a way of playing the Dawn of Souls remakes of FF1 and 2 other than on the GBA/PSX? There is not, but just because I can't resist being pedantic: the PSX version of FF2 is not the same as the Dawn of Souls version (the same is true for FF1). Notably, the PSX version of FF2 still allows stats to decrease, and doesn't have the extra post game dungeon of the Emperor taking over Heaven. The Final Fantasy Origins versions of 1/2 are basically just upgraded graphics/sound/music and a new translation with no new content from the original, though I think FFI did have a toggle for easy mode and to change between the MP style of casting and the spell levels system, whereas Dawn of Souls didn't have those options. e: Basically the Pixel Remaster versions of 1/2 are functionally identical to Final Fantasy Origins, just with much better music and slightly different graphics.
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PSP has them. Mobile used to but they probably got pulled in favor of the PR releases.
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Oh, poo poo, yeah, I forgot that I and II got PSP editions to celebrate the 20th anniversary that do have the Dawn of Souls content. Also way better music than the Dawn of Souls versions.
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